When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.

The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.

Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.

One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.

One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.